Lost Stars and Lost Continents m from Stjernerne
no.9, Dec.2006, 51yr. pp.54-58 - & Aug.1983 (27yr. no.11, pp.460-465) From ancient times, there
exists worldwide a set of uniform perceptions or symbolisms of
certain constellations in the sky. Could such tradition and symbolism
originate from the legends about civilizations of sunken
continents?
A number of indicators for this are
in existence. When, for example, the Pleiades characteristic cluster everywhere
in most ancient cultures are uniformly labeled or named as "the seven
young women or daughters by whom one is lost" - this may give rise to new
thinking and relevant review of scientific research in history and
anthropology. But it has not yet happened - although it is not scientifically
defensible to pre-exclude so-called
mythology and myths as information. In culture it is an inheritance of ideas containing
traces of past perceptions, where knowledge can be searched which may prove
truly valuable. So why is it that over large parts of
the world there are traditions with some similar ideas about certain stellar
constellations? Again, is it inherited from past civilizations? Archetypes? Many of
the known examples of such repeated ideas about constellations seem to remain
from seafarers around the world in all ages having navigated aided by the
stars, and this would be a relevant background for that the wide spread of some
of these ideas in common also could have appeared in this way. But - as we
shall see - it's not necessarily the only way. There is concrete evidence of the -
often controversial viewed - existence of an esoteric tradition of Also the
aforementioned stars of the Pleiades appear time and again. The name of the
missing star, the seventh Pleiades, was Elektra,
daughter of Atlas whose father was Oceanos or Poseidon, the god of the oceans.
The name Elektra is assigned a Greek word for 'amber', electron, used for
jewelry but also known that by friction it produces an 'energy charge' - later
called electricity - and keeps it
'electrostatic'. Double symbolism - a jewel in the sky and a mysterious
ability. The fact that electricity takes part
is emphasized by mythology’s story on Elektra's brother was killed by a
lightning. Some of the Egyptian and Greek temples had got mounted long spears
entirely of copper and with a lightning rod’s ability of attracting lightning -
also to be perceived as the temples receiving the 'light energy from the
cosmos’ in that way. Since the starry sky was extensively
cataloged in the 1600’s, the lost star's name Elektra showing up and being
attached one of the brightest of the Pleiades stars. The normally stable
stellar group of the Pleiades may
therefore have changed (stars do change, e.g. as it is known with Sirius which
in Antiquity was described as of red colour but being more bluish-white today).
Or it could have happened by loss of
details of the old knowledge so that the name could be attached another star
(for example, ancient constellation the Ass of the Sirius star group was mostly
forgotten and on Renaissance star maps a unicorn instead was inserted here
because of an also forgotten fact that the constellation Pegasus was the
original Unicorn). In other words, no complete assurance can be given that
Elektra on modern star maps is the original Elektra. Concerning the star myth of Electra,
the Roman writer Virgil (70 BC-19 AD) called her, the star, as Eoae Atlantides
(eoae, ’morning’ - at sunset in
October-November the Pleiades set in west). And Virgil's colleague, Ovid (43
BC-18 AD), called her directly by the name Atlantis
- based on relationship to her father, Atlas, and plausibly also by the
understanding all then had in common, namely that the continent of Atlantis had
disappeared into the sea like its mythological related star Atlantis (Elektra)
had disappeared in the sky!
recent times
the classic all the seven stars appear again but only by name. Plato’s many words about Atlantis
Likewise for Socrates' pupil Plato
(427-347 BC), who spent 13 years in A fragment of this old Egyptian
reference seems recognizable as this so-called myth appears to be reflected in
the wall decorations of the temple in Edfu although not (yet) as seen in
Egyptology. This temple was built according to the descriptions - by the new
Ptolemaic dynasty usage - as a preserving copy of the older temples, their
equipment, texts, and design. Here in the Edfu temple this can be seen
in detail: an ancient report about an island-continent (mythological like
"the In any case, a genius can, of course,
make mistakes but the exposed attitude by modern scholars appears somewhat
narrow minded as they reject without argument, which definitely would not be
accepted if they from the same unscientific level had rejected their own
colleagues. Many
writers and philosophers in Antiquity were in favor of Plato’s reports
"Timaeus" and "Critias" - from approx. 400 BC - in which
Atlantis is mentioned. Others were skeptical. One of the texts’ four main
characters, Critias, claiming that the above Solon had in the city of In the 300’s BC, philosopher Crantor
studied at Plato's student Xenocrates, and after his time he held a high
credibility by, for example, Plutarch and Cicero. Crantor traveled to But even if there has not yet been
found conclusive evidence (but not either rebuttal) on the supposed Atlantis'
former existence, it would be unscientific to behave arrogantly
"smarter" than the old writers, by simply rejecting Antiquity’s
information on the subject. For example the writer, philosopher,
and astronomer Eratosthenes, became in 240 BC the third leader of Alexandria's
famous library, which contained quantities of older texts collected by royal
decree from the ancient Egyptian temples libraries: a knowledge-based background
from where he also mentions Atlantis. - And the historian Ammianus Marcellinus
(ca. 350 AD) writes that: "...
been created
to mimic a cosmic pattern in the starry world based on ideas of a
particular harmony - also being known from later ancient cultures?
Some features in common at both
sides of the ocean Even from 125 years earlier than Plato there is
existing evidence of the celebration of Panathenaea-festival, where the Greek
goddess Pallas Athena was praised in the past for having helped
How was Atlantis seen in relation to world of the stars? One of Plato
works, "Critias", is not finalized, so we cannot know whether he
would have mentioned Atlantis’ starry world here, as he also was well versed in
the stars and wrote exciting details on cosmological matters.
Originally, a part of this knowledge seemed known in the rather closed
initiation cults - in
This feature seems to be the precession backwards displacement (a
phenomenon independently proved by Hipparchus 200 years later) and not the
Earth's own (fast) rotation, because Plato also describes the latter and its
pole axis in the same chapter. According to Plato there had been
elephants in Atlantis, - and in Mexico there is excavated elephant bones and
found elephant-like animals in ornaments of the later Mayan architecture. Diodorus Sicilus who in the first
century BC wrote 40 volumes of historical records and spent several years in
Egypt, has reproduced the information that Atlantis’ people "... did not
knew Ceres’ fruits ..." i.e. grain!
It is a fact that American Indians did not know the grain before the Europeans'
arrival. Excavations of ancient Indian cities
in Central and But nearly 2,400 years ago, Plato
described Atlantis' cities as just surrounded by circular channels outside of
each other. Would such a structure also be created to mimic a cosmic pattern in
star world - the principle of special harmony with the earthly and later known
in other ways in ancient cultures? Plato informed very directly about
some exact measuring and numbers of circular canals, a numerical relation also
as a kind of code, in fact knowledge he passes on and not just ‘a myth’.
researcher
Dr. Greg Little (www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/07/26.html). Based on his underwater archaeologic
mapping (bottom), the find is not believed to be a path, but is proposed as a
marine plant.
Atlantis - new traces? Alcyone
is the most bright star of the Pleiades. Tradition says in its special form of
expression that Alcyone is the name on one of Atlas' daughters marrying a king
who disappeared out in the The action was seen as an expression
for that Atlantis was submerged, after which many people saved themselves by
coming to other continents. That Atlantis sank in the sea depths is suggested
by the information of the rescue because Alcyone
is the Greek name for the bird which in English is named 'kingfisher' (the
Pleiades is often referred to as birds). This bird Alcyone is known to dive
vertically deep down into the water for the prey it will bring up, and the
queen appeared so to speak as a "kingfisher". In Danish it is 'icebird',
a twisting of German Eisvogel, 'iron
bird' - from the fact that the bird’s often steel blue colour has echoed in the
clear blue nebula surrounding the Pleiades star Alcyone in the sky. In early 1920's the Atlantis was
mentioned by Edgar Cayce, soon named "the Sleeping Prophet" by the
New York Times. About 1940 it was stated again from Edgar Cayce - in one of the
now over 13,000 predictions about many topics that had been presented by him -
that some part of Atlantis would appear again in the In any case, prehistoric floods are
likely to be traced from continental drift. Two tectonic plates meet in the
middle of the ocean. According to legends and visions the last of Atlantis sank
at 11-12,000 BC, and the priests used "crystals" for
"communication with other worlds" and warned on the land sinking. In
Atlantis' colonies in other continents "Halls of Records" were
established, some later saved "under the Sphinx in Although measurements with
ground-penetrating radar in ca. 2005 confirm that there really is significant
space under the Sphinx, such information is, of course, not even suitable as
sources, but they can belong to the big picture. It is more concrete to for
example explore the many regular stones found on the Atlantic floor. They were
used in a road, and some scientists believe that they are prehistoric marine
constructions with the several hundred meters long "pier" or
something alike. The stones in the Bimini sea are
hexagonal - but such can be found in nature - and they measure up to 25 and 30
feet, and two feet in thickness. They are even placed in layers. The research
evaluates them as non-natural. Some critics accept this but suggest that it is
the residue of lost cement barrels. In any case, they are found to be in seven
distinct categories and are "lined up" and therefore considered more
convincingly as constructed by humans. . A famous
Central American Indian people, by the Spaniards called the Aztecs, called them¬selves
"Aztlan" because they according to their own tradition had escaped
from a continent beyond the Ancient
Greeks named the Pleiades’ "father" as Atlas (located at the Atlas mountains at the south of As for
the Atlantic - if a country-lowering and flooding of an island-continent took
place out at its centre: there is here a huge north-to-south crack - Dolphin
Ridge, confirmed by the space shuttle Challenger - and covered with volcanic
deposits at the bottom where the crack divides the huge tectonic plates.
generator.
Right: the The Ice Age end and the floods The
Pleiades’ disappeared sister Electra was also called Atlantis, while the word
electra also means 'electricity'. Could this be a code, an underlying message
in this? Thus it is claimed that Atlantis was destroyed from within because of
the "abuse of a special kind of energy source" as instrumental reason
of doom that destabilized the island continent. The hypotheses on "a broken
energy field on the seabed" have been associated with mystical conditions
in the More proofs from ancient writers Marcellus - in his book "Aethiopica" - he
speaks about seven islands (Canary islands?) in the outer sea, the Atlantic,
where the inhabitants have kept the memory of a much larger island, the
Atlantis "which for long maintained power over the smaller islands".
Marcellus is known from the philosopher Proclus' comments on Plato.
Diodorus Siculus, Roman historian in the first century BC, wrote that the Phoenicians
dis-covered "a large island in the Atlantic Ocean beyond Hercules’ columns
at many days' sail¬ing from the coast of
The Gauls - also the French Gauls (Celtic) had a legends about Atlantis and
compiled by the Greek-Roman historian, Timagenes, who lived in first century
BC.
The Celts - the British Celts also had a legend that a portion of their country
once extended far out into the
Ancient accounts telling about floods are to be found in all cultures across the
globe. There have been various Floods with large intervals, but some specific
detail about the latest taking place ca. 11.600 years ago proves astonishingly
similar in India, Chaldea, Babylon, Greece, Scandinavia, China, among Jews, and
with Celtic tribes in Britain.
Plato's
texts from ca. 400 BC about Timaeus (21e-25d) and on Critias’ dialogues in
which Atlantis is described, have sometimes proved difficult to interpret in
cases where it do not deal with exact information, thus there are different
interpretations of the texts.
Plato
seems to emphasize that it was during one of the previous generations that the
information was retrieved concerning the name Critias is the same name as
Plato's grandfather. But the very fact that Plato informed that Atlantis'
destruction took place 9,000 years prior to Solon visited The axis tilt’s forgotten
influence Now we
know that at ca. 12,000 years ago ended the last Ice Age, the Pleistocene Ice
Age. The global sea level was lifted 100-125 m and more, and the temperature
exceeded 10 degrees - at that time. This was demonstrated in particular
the Authority, Bruce Heeze, oceanographer from the Lamont Geological Observatory.
He discovered in the 1950’s the ‘Mid-Atlantic Ridge’. (It could have been
involved in Atlantis' demise). Furthermore, the water level was
uplift result of melt water from glaciers of the Ice Age. They had covered the
major parts of the continents of the Earth's temperate regions - and were
several kilometers thick. Bruce Heeze pointed out that the
sea-level rise was sufficient to drown out most low-lying coastal regions of
the planet, also, for example, the region that now constitutes the South China
Sea - and may now be found at an average depth of 60 meters below sea level. The cause of climate change
conditions that produced the ice ages and glacial melting, which could continue
in a self-reinforcing way, has officially also been suggested such now demonstrably
relevant factors as the impact from sunspots and cosmic radiation. But one of the most powerful factors
is often not mentioned at all: The extremely slow, continuous change in the
earth's axis with a time cycle of approx. 26,400 years, also named as a
"platonic year". This will trigger a completely
CO2-independent climate change, since parts of the Earth globe by the changing
tilt of its axis will receive solar radiation in another number of hours - most
noticeably in the northern and southern areas outside the equatorial regions. An era with a solar radiation maximum
is due to a change of just few angular degrees of the Earth axis and therefore
also the ecliptic tilt, but this is sufficient to cause that, for example,
mid-Sweden gets a climate as France, as the associated average temperature
changes with nearly 10 Celsius degrees. Climate swings always, - Alexander the
Great captured
International conference on Atlantis
Interest in the real Atlantis conception has increased and on the Greek
- An Atlantis is proposed again and again as the tiny Greek island of
Santorini (Thera) which volcanically exploded around 1545 BC, - or the tiny
island of Malta, thus both being situated in the Mediterranean. - Or a small
submarine Spatula island off the Spanish Atlantic coast. - Or a
- But when Plato writes about an island continent with large geographic
target size that it is far out west of the pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar), and
that it happened at a time which is now 11,600 years ago - how can these people
without adding new facts continue to talk of tiny islands in an entirely
different ocean and at a completely different time?
Also there has ignorantly been presented as "facts" to be used
as "evidence" that Central America's Indian peoples had a deity
Aes-se-rias or the like "... it was the same name as Osiris, the Egyptians
called one of their high gods …". But in Egyptian the name of this god was
nothing more but As, and only later
the Greeks made this Egyptian god’s name to be expressed in Greek as Osiris. Unfortunately, more traditional
scientists are being seen to reject everything, while supporters are making
everything to be truth at any cost.
At the conference the star relationships that could be linked to
Atlantis were not mentioned - nor was the tilting Earth axis influence on the
increase of melt water volume.
An even
earlier sunken continent than Atlantis, namely Lemuria or Mu in the Pacific -
is described in
legends. Top photo shows the bottom of a step pyramid-like underwater formation
Star knowledge of a further,
vanished culture A
similar continent as the fabled Atlantis, but even earlier sunk is mentioned in
Indian legends to have had a high civilization and a long-term existence in the
Pacific. In India similar huge traditions are
still being observed, i.e. from further back than 3,000 years BC, where no
visible influence of Babylonian and Sumerian empires or language are found. The Babylonian priest astronomer
Berossos (Berossos of Chaldea), in the time of Alexander the Great in the 300’s
BC settled on the Greek island of Kos, bringing with him a wealth of knowledge
of Babylonian astronomy and astrology. In the traditions of Berossos is
reported that the Babylonians star recordings and astrology were considered
having roots back in several times tens of thousands of years. Barrosos also explained that stellar
science was by no means an invention of his and his Babylonian common
predecessors, the Sumerian people, but that this knowledge had been transferred
to them through contact with an alien race. Based on all the diverse concrete
information about contemporary defined constellations that always were actually
known far back, we can highlight the fact that some of the oldest known
astronomical and astrological knowledge also seem to have existed among India's
original people. Such can be seen not least in the It seems that the Sumerians had
accumulated star knowledge from both north and south, i.e. also from Mohenjo
Daro. Was it the "alien race"? Do we have to follow the track back
further and further away?
identical
with the glyphs from the Mysterious ancient writing on
stellar topics How did
the world look many thousand years ago? Modern science has eventually know-ledge
on many conditions. Including discovery of the peculiar feature that some
hitherto isolated Amazon Indian tribes (many Indian tribe languages in both
North and South America are not at all inter-related) in the Brazilian jungle
speaks a language that is only found among some mountain tribes in the interior
of the island of Taiwan/Formosa (as one of the five different languages were
spoken here before the revolution) in the South China Sea, which was normal
land surface but sunk 12,000 years ago. Where's the connection? Could some of the common names for
particular constellations - widespread regardless of different languages in
parts of the Pacific, Asia and America - have originated from an ancient
Pacific culture, for example, the lost continent of Lemuria, also called Mu
which ancient Indian legends mentioned as sunk several times - like Atlantis -
30,000-50,000 years ago? See also other similarities, for instance Thor
Heyerdahl found identical ceramics at the In a non-deciphered script of the
ancient Indus people there were discovered by philologist W. von Hevesy in 1934
at least 100 characters that were strikingly similar to characters of ancient
origin, found on Indeed, not until about 1970 the
mysteries surrounding the Mohenjo Daro culture's glyphs have been partially solved
- and had thereby revealed also the culture's intense interest on the
astronomical-astrological topics. - See in particular Asko Parpola et al.:
"Further Progress in the The research was conducted by the
above (Finnish) researchers around 1970, working at the For instance, the Greek star name
Medusa was in the Indus version Mahadahusa,
'big demon woman' - later, she/the star got the Arabic name Algol, and was
often described as an "unfortunate star". Later, lots of But the
preoccupation of the stars is also seen in the other, far end of the Pacific,
where the placements of the For example, at one of the island's
inland areas, known as Aku Akivi, is found a group of seven of these statues,
staring out to sea to a point on the horizon where the sun sets at the time of
equinox, thus demonstrating that the islanders mastered astronomical precision. Ove von Spaeth Further
information: www.moses-egypt.net
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